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he did him wrong ; and turning to the sheriff, said, 

 You promised me I should not be troubled at this 

 time. Nevertheless, he pressed him to answer; 

 saying he desired to know it, that he might pray 

 with him. I know not that S. W. is an ecclesiastic, 

 that he should cut any man from the communion of 

 prayer. And yet for all this vexing of the spirit of 

 a poor man, now in the gates of death ; Weston 

 nevertheless stood constant, and said, I die not 

 unworthily; my lord chief justice hath my mind 

 under my hand, and he is an honourable and just 

 judge. This is S. W. his offence. 



For H. I. he was not so much a questionist; but 

 wrought upon the others questions, and, like a kind 

 of confessor, wished him to discharge his conscience, 

 and to satisfy the world. What world ? I marvel ! it 

 was sure the world at Tyburn. For the world at 

 Guildhall, and the world at London, was satisfied 

 before ; &quot; teste&quot; the bells that rung. But men have 

 got a fashion now-a-days, that two or three busy- 

 bodies will take upon them the name of the world, 

 and broach their own conceits, as if it were a general 

 opinion. Well, what more ? When they could not 

 work upon Weston, then H. I. in an indignation 

 turned about his horse, when the other was turning 

 over the ladder, and said, he was sorry for such a 

 conclusion ; that was, to have the state honoured or 

 justified ; but others took and reported his words 

 in another degree : but that I leave, seeing it is not 

 confessed. 



H. I. his offence had another appendix, before 



